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Chicago examiner â€¢ â€¢ * wednesday wednesday vol xv no 257 a m Chicago october 17 1917 rnrl-uied prtpf two f*p'"yts in Chicago elsewhere 0 s patent office l i mv v__j j k3 and suburbs ihree cents u s weather forecast u.s demands coal strike end Chicago breaks loan record city's goal in sight 110,950 000 more to be raised great est parade in chicago's his tory to be staged wednesday loan total is billion vasi-i-vc.to oil 16 official figures received to-night from the twelve federal reserve districts showed to-day's subscriptions as follows ?,. w lark 5307,707,000 .' hosiotl a 65..00.000 Chicago 50,145,000 in francisco 31,554,950 hlchmond 24.Â«5!>,Â«00 i philadelphia 10,441,500 atlanta â€¢â€¢ 7.405,700 | dallas 4,550,300 j st louis 4,351,000 cleveland 2.090,000 kansas city 2,025,000 j minneapolis mo report taking these figures with uiioffi clnl estimated rclunis treasury offi cials to-night declared that the loan had passed the billion mark with subscriptions aggregating 16,150,000 Chicago yester day broke all local records of j the second liberty loan campaign the day brought the city's total to | approximately 70,000,000 5110,950 1 000 from the final goal official estimates of the total for the seventh federal reserve district were the record sum of 224,000,000.1 this is within 195,000,000 o the j minimum and 475,000,000 of the i maximum allotment these totals according to cam j paign officials are exceedingly con servative big subscriptions in Chicago for day , big Chicago subscriptions yesterday follow continental & commercial national bank continen tal & commercial state bank and the hibernian banking association . 510,000,000 , harris trust company .. . 2,000,000 northern trust company 1.000,000 Chicago board of trade 500,000 automobile how 100,000 j mrs 1 ogden armour . . . 50,000 crlbben & sexton 50,000 florshcim shoe company . 50,000 flying squadron of bond salesmen aggregate .. â– 2,000,000 other subscriptions 400,000 ! total 10,150,000 | other cities figures in Chicago district returns from other big cities in the district were indianapolis 18,000,000 milwau j kee 12,000,000 detroit 10,000,000 des moines 4,000,000 Illinois outside cook county has subscribed for 10,000,000 lowa 40,-1 000,000 michigan 30,000,000 wis consin 25,000,000 indiana 25,000 000 to reach its minimum allotment the Chicago and yigtmtt â€” in j creasing clot-dines to-day probably i rain by night and to-morrow to morrow or to-morrow night colder j increasing easterly to southerly winds * temperature l-'or twentv-f'jiir hour ending 2 a m highest 50 lowest 40 mean 52 a'ormal temperature for the day 34 sunrise to-day g:0o sunset 5.-06 cnm.let overi_oit.'nt reiiort out'ase 19 40 Illinois properties suspend as men leave in protest because pay is not raised no fuel in 60 per cent of yards here washington oct 16 dr h a garfield the fuel adminis trator sent this telegram to \ night to the heads of local unions tor coal mine districts for the southwest where strikes are threatened i am informed the officers of your national association have ap pealed to you to use every effort in your power to avert a strike at this time in view of the national sit uation and the great task im posed on president wilson i can not too strongly reinforce this message strikes must not take place if they have been ordered the order ought to be revoked at once the terms of the agreement agreed upon at washington be tween operators and miners are fair i understand that the only clause objected to is the clause pro viding for penalty it is just that this should be agreed to i shall . use every power committed to ma , to prevent strikes and warn you against allowing the order to ' stand mine union head orders strike halted john p white president of the united mine workers of america to day sent telegrams to divisional head quarters in the southwestern terri tory ordering the proposed strike be postponed pending adjustment of wage disputes by the fuel adminis tratlon anthracite operators representing i a majority of the mines in the unit ! ed states to-day pledged support of ' the administration naming a com mittee to co-operate blow up 30 in capital car two strikebreakers reported dy ing after dynamite demolishes crowded springfield trolley springfield 111 oct 16.â€”dyna mite placed on the tracks blew a street car to atoms late to-night and broke windows for two blocks the car contained thirty non union street car men those seriously injured and may die are l w palmers and 1 smith others injured are albert bidweil and w battenburg some of the survivors declared that in addition to the charge on lhe track a slick of dynamite was thrown into the car at the same time early this morning the police ar rested w j sullivaty known by the nickname of sjats according to the railway cojnpatiy officials sulli van was formerly in the employ of the company and worked on sun days he told t lie authorities last night that he had been working un til midnight at the garage of the auto sale company several other arrests are expected to-morrow buy liberty bonds rockefeller's advice new york oct 16 â€” john d rockefeller when asked to-day his opinion as to the best and safest in vestment a man could make said my advice is to buy the bonds of his own government the bonds of the united states government are the safest investment .â€” byÃŸaemaekers ypres loth right 1917 to louis raem.iebera william â€” doggonit hindenburg ! don't make your strategic moves so suddenly when lam standing behind you german and russian ships sunk in battle london oct 16 â€” two warships one german and one russian were sunk in the naval battle sunday in the gulf of riga off oesel and dago islands the russian war office an nounced to-day earlier reports said two german ships had been sunk and two dam aged the russian statement follows in the baltic sunday at 4 p m our patrol squadron off soela sound consisting of four torpedo boats and two gunboats was shelled by a ger man dreadnaught tho torpedo boat grom was severely damaged following this twelve and after ward more german torpedo boats of the newest type forced their way into koela sound under cover of the ger man battleship our patrol squadron accepted liat tlc the gunboat khrabry was struck twice and the torpedo boat grorn was under a violent fire other torpedo boats covered them energetically en gaging the enemy each siuf loses ship the enemy's fire was principally directed on the khrabry and groin all the guns of the latter vessel were put out of action she was also set on fire and a big wave cut the hawsers with which the khrabry was towing her the khrabry again approached the grom and once more endeavored to take her in tow but without success and the grom sank a majority ot her crew were saved by the khrabry simultaneously one of the enemy torpedo boats was sunk by the fire of the khrabry others of our war ships then appearing on the scene the enemy turned back the rest ot our warships were only slightly dam aged sunday petrograd announced four german torpedo boats had been sunk by the fire of dago island's batter ies and a cruiser driven ashore sink ing rgval evacuated report a dispatch from sweden to-day as serted the russians had evacuated reval their great naval base ou the southern shore of the gulf of fin land one of the three main naval defenses of petrograd the report has not been confirmed the germans reinforced by addi tional landing parties have occupied all of the islands of oesel except the svorb peninsula reports from petro grad and berlin state runo and abro islands south of oesel also have been occupied berlin said the russians there are offering desperate resistance berlin announced the capture uf 400 of the island's garrison besides thirty guns twenty-one machine i_uns md several airplanes rcss ill 11 11 wak i'la.ms stockholm oct 16 russia has built and is building many enormous munition gun and airplane factories the best equipped and efficient in the world an inspection committee in cluding an english general has just reported despite the political troubles the plants are working at capacity w.j burns at white house washington oct 16 â€” william j burns detective with two other men whose identity was not dis closed visited and conferred with secretary tumulty for more than an tour at the white house to-day an explanation of the visit of the de u.s.threatens to seize roads i c.c chief tells heads of lines service must be improved to avoid commandeering * washington oct 16 railroads lace federal seizure tf they csnnct maintain maximum efficiency under their present management and super vision the war n<Â»cds of the country will compel the government to take summary action as in the case ot the merchant marine chairman henry c hall of the in terstate commerce commission prof fered tiiis forecast to-day summarizing the situation before tin national association of railway ooimiiif sii ii is he told them it Â»-._ ! iaigel in their hands tin power lo commandeer the railroads he said has not been ex l ri-isid the power to commandeer j tin carriers by water has been right | to cornm ndeer the railroads may y.t ! be exercised it rests very largely with us ; whether we wi 11 do our full part to ward keeping the operation of the railroads up to the maximum effi \ cii nc.v which war needs demand how state railway commissioners i throughout the country view efforts i of the trunk lines to obtain increased j rates was indicated by president ' thelen of california in opening the convention he said the railroads are doing very well and financially need no in creases in revenue the petition of the trunk lines will be argued before the interstate com merce commission to-morrow the ftate railway commissioners are ex pected to attend in a body * kaiser to end war by ! athens declares peace is immi nent and asserts new proposal ; will be less irreconcilable to allies demands 1 london oct 16 â€” the kaiser reached constantinople to-day reu ters reports he was received at i the station by the sultan the royal ! princes and the principal army naval ; and civil dignitaries turkish girls strewed flowers in the emperor's path as he drove with the sultan aand enver pasha war minister to review the guard of honor he will inspect the dardanelles defenses during his visit rome oct 16 â€” that peace is im minent is the belief in well informed circles according to dispatches from athens authentic ! advices have been received that ger jmaiiy is about to announce new and jless irreconcilable terms the corre ! spondent says germany is faced by the neces 1 i sity of making peace as the result not only of an insufficiency of the output of munitions and the grow i ing ascendancy of the socialists i but also of the imminent danger i of a split with her allies the em ; peror of austria is known to be i none too fond of the kaiser and j the pan-germans and he is faced i by the utter exhaustion of his army and the country n the bulgarians too are renew ing overtures which they initiated last winter for a separate peace nor are the turks behindhand in the scramble to abandon the sink ing ship of the central empires austria splits with michaelis amsterdam oct 16 two dis patches received here to-day indicate the solidarity of the central powers is existei-t in name only king charles to-day canceled his visit to sofia where the central powers rul ers were to have an important con ference cancellation of the visit is said to be due lo the serious internal condi tions in austria due to the food shortage which is exasperating the people to such an extent that the l-mperor's absence is considered t n safe count czernin austrian foreign minister to-day notified the jer man government tiiat he would re fuse io deai further with chancellor michaelis cxernin's action follows his re quest for a statement of germany's peace terms and urging that the kaiser make certain concessions in the west the reply of the chancellor wa vague and evasive czernin as serts that clarity and frankness are of the utmost importance at this time germans are eating bread of sawdust rome oct 16 â€” a swiss military attache in berlin just returned to rome brought a loaf of german bread to see if it caused his illness analysis showed the loaf contains corn 12 per cent barley 22 per cent and 06 per cent sawdust u s coasts in kaiser's new war zones london oct 16 germany has decided to declare the coasts of north america and cuba v/^r zones according to reports from berlin blaston u.s patrol i dud details of mysterious explosion off long island withheld by navy new york oct 16 â€” a mysteri ous explosion occurred on a united states patrol boat off babylon i 1 to-day one man is known to have been killed and another per haps fatally hurt information was refused at the brooklyn navy yard by rear admiral usher to whom inquiries at babylon were referred a wireless call for aid was flashed to the sayvllle station commander h b roosevelt a cousin of colonel roosevelt in charge there ordered a vessel to the rescue of the patrol boat fifteen miles off the coast the rescue ship brought back the terribly burned body of a second class seaman named sheehan the other sailor suffering from burns was taken to a babylon hospital it is reported the patrol ship was badly damaged but all details of the cause and the extent of the damage were refused hold banker 4 others as dangerous aliens new york oct 16 â€” one of five prominent germans arrested to-day is said to be fritz kuhn banker and importer the five were interned on ellis island as dangerous alien en emies the other four were george von seebeck business associate of kuhn george fuchs ernst grues bah karl f g pogenkop authori ties arc maintaining secrecji regard ing the arrests promotion expected for col j a ryan fort sheridan oct 16 that colonel james a ryan commandant of the reserve officers training camp may be promoted to the rank of brigadier general at the close of the present camp was intimated to day by a prominent Chicago business man who visited the camp i haven't given such a thing a thought said colonel ryan has faith in russia wilson telegraphs petrograd oct 16 a telegram from president wilson dated octo ber l expressing confidence in the intelligence of russia was delivered to mme catherine breshkovskaya grandmother of the revolution it was handed to her in person by ambassador david r francis odds on judge hylan increased in new york mow york oct 16 betting in the mayoralty election to-day showed judge hylan democratic candidate a favorite at 2,4 to i percy guard betting commissioner reported one wager of 1,150 to 500 and said there was plenty of hylan money says kaiser hopes to encourage bulgars vienna oct 16 â€” the w.sser i zeitung suggests that the visit to j sofia of the german emperor and i dr von kuehlniann secretary for ] foreign affairs had as its object to i encourage a bulgarian attack on general sarrail's forces saloniki is to be the reward in case of success the paper adds that a declaration of war by greece against bulgaria is to be expected at an early date the writer of the article says that bulgaria will be able to bring soo.ooo men against general serrail while still leaving 200.000 available for | dobrudia city in grip of coal famine fifteen thousand coal miners in Illinois went on strike yesterday i heedless of existing wage agree ments coincide ntally it became known ! that a fuel famine exists in Chicago the miners said they struck be cause of the operators delay in grant ing a wage increase of 10 cents a ton to diggers and 1.40 a day to drivers | and pit men 40 mines affected plot is charged forty mines throughout the s.ate were closed by the walkout peoria i operators charged that the strike wa influenced by german propagandists it reduced the coal production of Illinois 75,000 tons a day aeeordin â– to state fuel administrator williams one ray of hope came from jlr j wheeler it was the prediction that i the strike will be short lived the Chicago situation is critical sixty per cent of the coal yards oi i Chicago to-day are bare of fuel crisis seen here within three days forty per cent have only enough coal to last for hree days the 300 schools of the city have only enough coal in their bins to last < until november 1 a supply for i j short time longer is in storage and i can be delivered unlesa trouble is i encountered in hauling j coal companies refused yesterday fl l .__! 9 '.''"* j^^^mmmmmmmm-m.j i w â– at your finger tips f jj â€” i when you turn back to the j want ad pajei examiner's fi classified section are countless good positions offered through |_] i : help wanted columns *â– ,- i ' ~! â– final i il i ' i

Chicago examiner â€¢ â€¢ * wednesday wednesday vol xv no 257 a m Chicago october 17 1917 rnrl-uied prtpf two f*p'"yts in Chicago elsewhere 0 s patent office l i mv v__j j k3 and suburbs ihree cents u s weather forecast u.s demands coal strike end Chicago breaks loan record city's goal in sight 110,950 000 more to be raised great est parade in chicago's his tory to be staged wednesday loan total is billion vasi-i-vc.to oil 16 official figures received to-night from the twelve federal reserve districts showed to-day's subscriptions as follows ?,. w lark 5307,707,000 .' hosiotl a 65..00.000 Chicago 50,145,000 in francisco 31,554,950 hlchmond 24.Â«5!>,Â«00 i philadelphia 10,441,500 atlanta â€¢â€¢ 7.405,700 | dallas 4,550,300 j st louis 4,351,000 cleveland 2.090,000 kansas city 2,025,000 j minneapolis mo report taking these figures with uiioffi clnl estimated rclunis treasury offi cials to-night declared that the loan had passed the billion mark with subscriptions aggregating 16,150,000 Chicago yester day broke all local records of j the second liberty loan campaign the day brought the city's total to | approximately 70,000,000 5110,950 1 000 from the final goal official estimates of the total for the seventh federal reserve district were the record sum of 224,000,000.1 this is within 195,000,000 o the j minimum and 475,000,000 of the i maximum allotment these totals according to cam j paign officials are exceedingly con servative big subscriptions in Chicago for day , big Chicago subscriptions yesterday follow continental & commercial national bank continen tal & commercial state bank and the hibernian banking association . 510,000,000 , harris trust company .. . 2,000,000 northern trust company 1.000,000 Chicago board of trade 500,000 automobile how 100,000 j mrs 1 ogden armour . . . 50,000 crlbben & sexton 50,000 florshcim shoe company . 50,000 flying squadron of bond salesmen aggregate .. â– 2,000,000 other subscriptions 400,000 ! total 10,150,000 | other cities figures in Chicago district returns from other big cities in the district were indianapolis 18,000,000 milwau j kee 12,000,000 detroit 10,000,000 des moines 4,000,000 Illinois outside cook county has subscribed for 10,000,000 lowa 40,-1 000,000 michigan 30,000,000 wis consin 25,000,000 indiana 25,000 000 to reach its minimum allotment the Chicago and yigtmtt â€” in j creasing clot-dines to-day probably i rain by night and to-morrow to morrow or to-morrow night colder j increasing easterly to southerly winds * temperature l-'or twentv-f'jiir hour ending 2 a m highest 50 lowest 40 mean 52 a'ormal temperature for the day 34 sunrise to-day g:0o sunset 5.-06 cnm.let overi_oit.'nt reiiort out'ase 19 40 Illinois properties suspend as men leave in protest because pay is not raised no fuel in 60 per cent of yards here washington oct 16 dr h a garfield the fuel adminis trator sent this telegram to \ night to the heads of local unions tor coal mine districts for the southwest where strikes are threatened i am informed the officers of your national association have ap pealed to you to use every effort in your power to avert a strike at this time in view of the national sit uation and the great task im posed on president wilson i can not too strongly reinforce this message strikes must not take place if they have been ordered the order ought to be revoked at once the terms of the agreement agreed upon at washington be tween operators and miners are fair i understand that the only clause objected to is the clause pro viding for penalty it is just that this should be agreed to i shall . use every power committed to ma , to prevent strikes and warn you against allowing the order to ' stand mine union head orders strike halted john p white president of the united mine workers of america to day sent telegrams to divisional head quarters in the southwestern terri tory ordering the proposed strike be postponed pending adjustment of wage disputes by the fuel adminis tratlon anthracite operators representing i a majority of the mines in the unit ! ed states to-day pledged support of ' the administration naming a com mittee to co-operate blow up 30 in capital car two strikebreakers reported dy ing after dynamite demolishes crowded springfield trolley springfield 111 oct 16.â€”dyna mite placed on the tracks blew a street car to atoms late to-night and broke windows for two blocks the car contained thirty non union street car men those seriously injured and may die are l w palmers and 1 smith others injured are albert bidweil and w battenburg some of the survivors declared that in addition to the charge on lhe track a slick of dynamite was thrown into the car at the same time early this morning the police ar rested w j sullivaty known by the nickname of sjats according to the railway cojnpatiy officials sulli van was formerly in the employ of the company and worked on sun days he told t lie authorities last night that he had been working un til midnight at the garage of the auto sale company several other arrests are expected to-morrow buy liberty bonds rockefeller's advice new york oct 16 â€” john d rockefeller when asked to-day his opinion as to the best and safest in vestment a man could make said my advice is to buy the bonds of his own government the bonds of the united states government are the safest investment .â€” byÃŸaemaekers ypres loth right 1917 to louis raem.iebera william â€” doggonit hindenburg ! don't make your strategic moves so suddenly when lam standing behind you german and russian ships sunk in battle london oct 16 â€” two warships one german and one russian were sunk in the naval battle sunday in the gulf of riga off oesel and dago islands the russian war office an nounced to-day earlier reports said two german ships had been sunk and two dam aged the russian statement follows in the baltic sunday at 4 p m our patrol squadron off soela sound consisting of four torpedo boats and two gunboats was shelled by a ger man dreadnaught tho torpedo boat grom was severely damaged following this twelve and after ward more german torpedo boats of the newest type forced their way into koela sound under cover of the ger man battleship our patrol squadron accepted liat tlc the gunboat khrabry was struck twice and the torpedo boat grorn was under a violent fire other torpedo boats covered them energetically en gaging the enemy each siuf loses ship the enemy's fire was principally directed on the khrabry and groin all the guns of the latter vessel were put out of action she was also set on fire and a big wave cut the hawsers with which the khrabry was towing her the khrabry again approached the grom and once more endeavored to take her in tow but without success and the grom sank a majority ot her crew were saved by the khrabry simultaneously one of the enemy torpedo boats was sunk by the fire of the khrabry others of our war ships then appearing on the scene the enemy turned back the rest ot our warships were only slightly dam aged sunday petrograd announced four german torpedo boats had been sunk by the fire of dago island's batter ies and a cruiser driven ashore sink ing rgval evacuated report a dispatch from sweden to-day as serted the russians had evacuated reval their great naval base ou the southern shore of the gulf of fin land one of the three main naval defenses of petrograd the report has not been confirmed the germans reinforced by addi tional landing parties have occupied all of the islands of oesel except the svorb peninsula reports from petro grad and berlin state runo and abro islands south of oesel also have been occupied berlin said the russians there are offering desperate resistance berlin announced the capture uf 400 of the island's garrison besides thirty guns twenty-one machine i_uns md several airplanes rcss ill 11 11 wak i'la.ms stockholm oct 16 russia has built and is building many enormous munition gun and airplane factories the best equipped and efficient in the world an inspection committee in cluding an english general has just reported despite the political troubles the plants are working at capacity w.j burns at white house washington oct 16 â€” william j burns detective with two other men whose identity was not dis closed visited and conferred with secretary tumulty for more than an tour at the white house to-day an explanation of the visit of the de u.s.threatens to seize roads i c.c chief tells heads of lines service must be improved to avoid commandeering * washington oct 16 railroads lace federal seizure tf they csnnct maintain maximum efficiency under their present management and super vision the war n